SPAN 102

Interpretive, Interpersonal, and Presentational Modes of Communication

Address the reflection exercises in each of the following sections. For each section, you will need to embed portions of these assignments and activities as artifacts to substantiate your reflection. Then, at the end of each section, include a link to the document or embed it as a PDF. 

Tutorials are available:

An Effective Reflection Is

  • Written in English.
  • A demonstration, explanation, comparison of skill and growth described through what you learned and the challenges you had in that learning while highlighting your best work.
  • A discussion of how you overcame any weakness or obstacles. Explain what you mean.
  • Supported by evidence as represented by your artifacts (course materials, photographs, video, conversations, projects, news reports, authentic materials, etc.).
  • Specific, addressing particular strengths, weakness, skills, transformative experiences, etc., avoiding vague generalizations (ex: “I learned a lot.”).

An Effective Reflection is not

  • Only sharing an artifact without context or discussion.
  • Only a description or explanation of an artifact. Focus on your learning and growth as a result of having completed that experience.
  • An attempt to justify your work to an instructor. Instead, think more broadly about future audiences that might benefit from seeing evidence of your work and the skills you are developing.

Artifacts

A good artifact is a portion or clip of an assignment. It needs to be carefully selected to provide evidence/proof that supports what you are saying in your reflection.

Your reflection will help you determine what that will be. It is a quest for quality. It will represent you academically and professionally, and have personal meaning. It can be written, audio, or video.

At the end, ask yourself if the artifacts best demonstrates your abilities and growth over time.

At the end of your reflection in each section, link or embed the assignment/artifact. If the assignment has multiple pages and seems to overwhelm the section, consider adding just the first page and offering to provide the rest upon request.

Instructions

Exploring Culture

From reading the textbook and I think the presentations have helped me understand Spanish culture the most while taking this class. Definitely all the chapters we learned about in the textbook was mostly about the culture and helped us learn many things from the readings.

The examples that our teacher gave us and the ones in the textbook definitely helped me be more educated about Spanish culture. The reading I had in this class about the culture I would say did not challenge my worldview. I found that viewing the Spanish culture did open my eyes about how people from this culture do and say things differently depending on where you live.

Engaging in Communities

I think it is important to engage in your immediate community and global community because you could learn many new things by interacting with others around you. You can also see how other react to what you do within your community and how they see you.

My experience goes within my community by school, my home, and church. With school I joined a sorority and we do things around campus and the community that surrounds the school. We also help nationally with our service. At my home I worked at the pool in the apartment complex. Working there is a small duty but it made a lot of the kids and adults that lived there happy that it was clean and always kept up with.

Interpersonal Communication

In English, give a very brief 3-4-line description of TalkAbroad and other interpersonal oral/audio activities, discussion board and other interpersonal writing/reading activities you completed this semester inside or outside of class for or related to your Spanish learning. (See Modes of Communication link for definition and examples).

For our discussion board posts we talked about Spanish food dishes, songs, architectural structures. I thought these discussion posts that we talked about in the class made us look at the different cultural things about the Spanish speaking culture. I think that the TalkAbroad was very interesting and informational. Talking to another person, that person’s first language being Spanish, was definitely challenging. However, it was fascinating learning about their culture. I feel as if I have grown with speaking Spanish in front of others, especially since doing so many oral/audio activities. I exceled at pronunciation of Spanish words and phrases.

Presentational Speaking

In English, give a brief 2-3-line description of any presentational speaking activities you completed this semester inside or outside of class for or related to your Spanish learning. Include a recording of one of these speaking activities. (See Modes of Communication link for description and examples). 

 I was very anxious when we had our first presentation in Spanish 102. I knew it was still a beginning class for Spanish but it was a little more advanced. But for the most part I always did pretty well on the presentations. My pronunciation was the best thing when presenting my sentences to my partner and my professor. Some things I could work on in the future is creating longer sentences. Overall I think the presentations were my favorite thing about this class. It made me realize speaking Spanish is not so easy, made me appreciate the language more.

Presentational Writing

We did mostly compositions in this class. We have done three compositions. All of them had to include ten sentences in Spanish only, we could not type in English.

I think compared to the first composition to the last I have definitely learned how to write and communicate in Spanish better. It was easier to write about things I already know or have learned than something that I know nothing about. Something I could work on is making my sentences longer and more detailed. (could not access my compositions, it just took me to the quiz page since we did these as quizzes).

Interpretive Listening

There were activities in Vhl and some quizzes that we did that had listening/hearing interpreted into them.

Some things we did that included listening and interpreting what we heard was either on Vhl or our professor gave us short quizzes where we had to listen to her speak in Spanish and had to answer questions upon what she was saying. I enjoyed the listening snips that were in my assignments this semester in this class. For the most part this was more of the easier assignments that went on in this class.

When you have finished adding content to this page, delete all the instructions except the link to the Modes of Communication.